The Lower Macungie shopping centers that stand to gain new competition from a planned Costco-anchored retail center have asked a judge to strike down a tax financing plan approved for the $140 million project. The owner of the Trexler Mall and Trexlertown Plaza has sued Lower Macungie's Board of Commissioners in Lehigh County Court, claiming among other things that the process by which tax increment financing was approved was done incorrectly, was unnecessary and was "tainted with conflicts of interest." Attorney Jonathan Hugg, who represents Cedar Realty of Port Washington, N.Y., which owns the competing shopping centers, argues in the suit that a judge should...

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